code review request for 6880112, Coin: use diamond in core libraries

[Stuart Marks]

Thanks for the comments, folks.

I've been puzzling over the issue of joining lines after diamond conversion if 
they're short enough. It turns out to be a surprisingly complex interaction of 
tools, code style, and process.[1]

Joe and I actually talked about this issue briefly the other day and our 
initial inclination was not to make the additional whitespace changes. In some 
sense the Jackpot automated converter should do this for us, but it doesn't, 
and I don't want to take the time at the moment to get up to speed and modify 
it to do this.

However, Brian and Alan and another person off-list have all raised this issue, 
so I think it's important that we address it. Looking at it again, leaving 
something like this in the code:

     private static Map<String, URL> urls
         = new HashMap<>(10);

really offends my sensibilities, and let's face it, nobody is going to go in 
and fix this unless I do it now. It turns out that it isn't too difficult to 
write a script that can be run after-the-fact to join these lines if they end 
up shorter than 80 characters.

Unfortunately, as Kelly points out (and I've also verified this) changing the 
line breaks will change the .class file contents (though not the bytecodes). 
The original changeset does have a very nice property of not changing the 
.class files at all. We could preserve this property by putting the line joins 
in a separate changeset. I'd do this if we could have multiple changesets with 
the same bugid, but a separate changeset requires a separate bugid... so maybe 
this isn't worth the overhead after all.

I've run the line joiner and it changed ten files. Here's an incremental 
webrev, over and above yesterday's:

     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~smarks/reviews/6880112/webrev.1/

and the corresponding hg bundle is here:

     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~smarks/reviews/6880112/bundle.1.hg

If this doesn't meet with any objections, I'll merge these whitespace changes 
and the earlier diamond conversion changes into a single changeset and then 
push the result.

s'marks

[1] "I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at 
in the right way, did not become still more complicated." -- Poul Anderson